Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) Ionic, .NET, SharePoint, Office 365, Mobile Development, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

I have a session coming up at SharePoint Summit Toronto this year about the many different ways you can query search. Whenever I am working on a new talk, it is customary for me to write blog posts about my examples so here it is. :) I first learned how to query SharePoint 2013 search with...

The Office Developer Tools team snuck a new feature into the RTM version of the tools for Visual Studio 2012. This new feature allows you to deploy apps and actually alter the search schema on the host web . That’s right. You can deploy an app and it will directly change the search...

If you have tried to do any work with SharePoint 2013 Client Web Parts with the Office Developer Tools Preview 2 in Visual Studio 2012, you know it’s an exercise in frustration. It literally locks up every three or four lines of code you try to type. When it does this, it will freeze for...

NOTE: This post is build with Visual Studio 2012 RC and Preview 1 of the Office Developer Tools. See this post for an update with Preview 2 of the Office Developer Tools and the RTM version of SharePoint 2013. I am extremely interested in the new SharePoint 2013 App model so I have been doing a...

Thanks to everyone who attended my Office 365 Lync and Learn session last week. I enjoyed the opportunity to show everyone how they can use Visual Studio 2012 RC to get started with SharePoint Online development. I’ve attached a link to my slides as well as the video on YouTube. Also...

It’s been a busy month for speaking (among other things). Last month, I spoke about getting started with SharePoint Online development at SharePoint Saturday New Orleans. The New Orleans crew (Cherie, Beth, and Tiffany) did a great job putting the event together. Here are the slides...

I’m excited to be speaking at the first Office 365 Saturday in Redmond on 2/25. This new event will be an exciting display of all things Office 365. I’ll be talking about all of the cool things you can do with Search in SharePoint Online. I gave this talk at SPC11, but I gave the talk...

I’ve written a number of posts in the last couple of weeks about the new SharePoint features in the Visual Studio 11 developer preview. These posts include publishing to SharePoint Online , Visual Web Parts , Silverlight Web Part , and the Content Type Editor . I’ll wrap up this series with...

Visual Studio 11 adds a new feature that makes working with Silverlight in SharePoint 2010 a bit easier. The new Silverlight Web Part feature automates deploying your Silverlight applications to SharePoint and can really save you a bit of time. We took a look at how the Visual Web Part works...

So I’ve been living under a rock again and I had never gotten around to checking what’s new in Visual Studio 11. The Developer Preview has been around a while and I wanted to check it out today and was surprised to see some new SharePoint development features that I am really excited about. ...